I was in a similar situation and did exactly what you're proposing to do.
My opinion is that the preservation and extension of this is less useful than
rfc950 claims. Except for systems that explicitly check for and disallow this
case, I'm not aware of any software that breaks as a result. (Actually, I
heard that there was a problem with some versions of SunOS, but since that's
the OS that thought that the broadcast address was all zeros, we can't really
use it as the reference port, can we?)
Cisco requires that you disable this check explicitly, but it then works like
a charm.
Chris
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